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Word: doughtier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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